[Tex/LaTex] Align figures to top using minipage environment

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I would like to align 2 figures to top using minipage environment, I've seen post like this link but answers doesn't use minipage environment. I've got this code:

\documentclass[8pt,a4paper,dvipsnames]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=1.5cm]{geometry}


\begin{document}
Test text
\begin{figure}[htp]
{\hfill}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.35\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{example-image-a}
\end{minipage}
{\hfill}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.55\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.55]{example-image-b}
\end{minipage}
{\hfill}
\end{figure} 


\end{document}

which produces this:

I think if I've got figures align to bottom, I could align them to top. Thank you so much and excuse me if this is a duplicated.

Best Answer

You have two ways: one with minipages, one without them.

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[left=2cm,right=2cm,top=1.5cm,bottom=1.5cm]{geometry}

\begin{document}

\noindent X\dotfill X % for seeing the line width

\begin{figure}[htp]

\hspace*{\fill}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.25\textwidth}
\centering
\vspace{0pt}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\end{minipage}%
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\textwidth}
\centering
\vspace{0pt}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{example-image-b}
\end{minipage}%
\hspace*{\fill}

\end{figure} 

\begin{figure}[htp]

\hspace*{\fill}%
\raisebox{-\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.25\textwidth]{example-image-a}}%
\hfill
\raisebox{-\height}{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{example-image-b}}%
\hspace*{\fill}

\end{figure} 

\end{document}

The addition of \vspace{0pt} sets an invisible item at the top of the minipage, which becomes the the reference point.

The second solution exploits the fact that the reference point of an image is the bottom left, so raising it by -\height pushes it down so the reference point is the upper left.

Note the % to avoid spurious spaces. You're adding too many of them.

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[Tex/LaTex] top align minipage in tabular

It's not clear to me why you have minipage environments encasing tabular environments. Here's a solution that dispenses with the minipages and top-aligns two tabular environments within a tabularx environment.

To avoid overlaps between the \hlines drawn by the outer tabularx and the inner tabular environments, I've omitted some of your \hline instructions from the inner environments. If you decide to get rid of the outer \hlines, be sure to re-insert the \hlines in the inner tabulars.

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}X@{}X@{}}
  \hline
  \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|l|} 
      1 & 2 \\ \hline
      3 & 4 \\ \hline
      5 & 6 
    \end{tabular}
    &
    \begin{tabular}[t]{|l|l|} 
      7 & 8 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}\\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Next, here's a version with three vertical bars drawn by the outer tabularx (far left, middle, and right). To avoid overlap of the vertical lines drawn by the inner and outer table-like environments, it may again be a good idea to omit the first vertical bar from each of the inner tabulars.

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|@{}X|@{}X@{}|}
  \hline
  \begin{tabular}[t]{l|l|} 
      1 & 2 \\ \hline
      3 & 4 \\ \hline
      5 & 6 
    \end{tabular}
    &
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l|l|} 
      7 & 8 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}\\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

Finally, for the sake of completeness, here's the code that's needed if you wish to use minipage environments after all to typeset the preceding example. Note that it's necessary to use the [t] position specifier for both minipages and both tabulars in order to get the vertical alignment just right. (Not showing a separate screenshot since the result is identical to the one above.)

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|@{}X|@{}X@{}|}
    \hline
    \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l|l|} 
        1 & 2 \\ \hline
        3 & 4 \\ \hline
        5 & 6 
    \end{tabular}
    \end{minipage}
    &
    \begin{minipage}[t]{\linewidth}
    \begin{tabular}[t]{l|l|} 
        7 & 8 \\ \hline
    \end{tabular} 
    \end{minipage}\\
    \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Three ‘side to side’ figures using minipage

I understand that the three subfigures should be numbered a, b, and "c". This can be done with the help of the subcaption package.

The following is a mock-up of what's possible. Obviously, you'll need to decide things such as the relative widths of the subfigures.

enter image description here

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
%% left-hand side: a single subfigure
\begin{subfigure}{0.33\textwidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=4in]{fig1}
\caption{First subfigure} \label{subfig:left}
\end{subfigure}
%% horizontal separation between the left and right hand sides
\hspace*{\fill}
%% right-hand side: a minipage that contains two more subfigures
\begin{minipage}{0.64\textwidth}
\begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=1.75in]{fig2}
\caption{Second subfigure} \label{subfig:upper-right}
\end{subfigure}

\vspace*{0.6cm}
\begin{subfigure}{\linewidth}
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth,height=1.75in]{fig3}
\caption{Third subfigure} \label{subfig:lower-right}
\end{subfigure}
\end{minipage}

\caption{A complicated figure}
\end{figure}

A cross-reference to subfigure \ref{subfig:upper-right}.
\end{document}

Addendum: If you wanted to get the reverse layout, i.e., place the two stacked subfigures on the left and the single, tall subfigure on the right, all you'd have to do is exchange the order of the left- and right-hand groups of code in the example above.

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